(i) Consider the nucleus of a H atom as a point charge electron circling about it at a speed of and a radius of The Coulombian force acts as a centrifugal force, causing the nucleus to circle.
Here
(-) sign shows the force of attraction.
By Bohr’s postulate, we have angular momentum as
From I
For ground state , we have,
for ground state)
(ii) In the case of a spherical nucleus with a radius of , the electron moves charge within the nucleus , and then the electron moves inside the nucleus. Then ( is the radius of the rotating electron’s new Bohr’s orbit)
Charge
Coulomb’s law
(By Bohr’s postulate)
Now for ground state of and , then we have,
From part (i), we have,